Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.
it’s frustrating getting looked at funny for accepting that life is unpredictable and framing accordingly.
Yes, this! I always want to answer that you’d have to be a charlatan or delusional to claim that’s knowable information.
Like when people would ask ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?’, and I presumed they meant ‘what are you interested in at the moment?’
I rarely have the discipline to actually 100% anything, but I do play with that goal and tend to hyperfocus on games, often to my detriment. Not every game though. Sometimes it’ll be months until another game really grabs me, and maybe I’m playing stuff more casually in between. Also I tend to go back to old favorites a lot.
For example I finally picked up Horizon: Forbidden West and for the first time in years even my favorite archaeology channels have unwatched content. My 4am bedtime is not great and last week someone at work asked me if I forgot to brush my chompers. But before that it was a 3rd or 4th playthrough of Witcher 3.
This is just an ad for obvious bullshit. Forbes may as well be running articles about how ozempic is done because of this one weird trick a local veteran discovered.
I’m guessing it’ll be more like the dot com bubble in the 90s - too much too soon but it’s not going away.
I believe this is just about which word a language uses to say that an adjective applies to a noun. While ‘to be’ is very popular for this, ‘to have’ is quite common too. Mandarin uses ‘very’.
I very much agree that copyright is a tool to protect the wealth of the rich.
But I think the idea of restricting access to knowledge in order to benefit a select few predates capitalism. The ancient Chinese state iron and salt monopoly is the first example that comes to mind, some Greek mystery cults probably count too, even if we don’t think of that knowledge as beneficial now.
I’d guess it’s a common feature of strongly elite-dominated societies, of which capitalism is just the current model.
Your link is just to this post, but after searching I believe you’re talking about Lia Thomas. That’s a single example so not necessarily representative.
"FACT: Trans athletes do not have an unfair advantage in sports.”
"After one year of hormone therapy, trans women performed better in sports than cis women. After two years, their performance was largely equalized.”
“…finding that trans women athletes are at a relative disadvantage in many key physical areas relating to athletic ability… than their cisgender counterparts.”
Yep, the “fairness” argument is a transparent figleaf for intentional persecution.
My understanding is that there is absolutely no evidence that trans women have an advantage. Once hormone therapy has been going for a while performance shows no statistical difference from women assigned female at birth. I was listening to a report on the radio just yesterday.
Additionally the number of trans athletes is incredibly small.
I’ve heard that the greatest correlation with Olympic medal tally is the amount of state funding for sports and sport sciences. If we’re going to asterisk any records, it should probably be for everyone from wealthy countries.
Came here to post this exact comment!
I’ve heard it said that as long as investment returns average higher than wage increases, society will continue to get worse.
This and that are also pronouns, just not personal pronouns. Gendered personal pronouns are common across languages but far from universal.
Mandarin has just “tā”, though it’s distinguished in writing as 他/她/它, he/she/it. Chinese speakers often have trouble correctly using he/she in English - “my girlfriend, he is very attractive” is something I heard.
Not if you want to buy a hammer. BOGO costs you twice as much as -50% and you’d have to carry out two hammers like a madman.
With no ransom demand it’s gotta be a state actor probing defenses and testing responses, right? I think first guesses would be Russia, China, Iran or maybe North Korea.
Also he was like 83 when he wrote that response to Mr Chainz and like 94 when he made his stuff public domain
As an Australian living in the northern hemisphere I avoid both christmas and anything that reminds me of home.
A fair point. I would guess closer to 10% than 1% or 100% also have a foreign language page. I’d guess between 1-10% of those english language pages are non-english speakers.
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But that’s 1.1M living people with english language wikipedia pages, right?
I think a better comparison figure would be the ~1.5B english speakers or the ~400M native english speakers. So 0.073% or 0.275%.
Much more achievable.
At my last job we had to do goals like that and I found it so frustrating. It was a constant cycle of: Have you made any progress towards [new goal]? No, I’m not interested in that anymore, I did [task] instead. Oh, okay… so what’s your [new goal] then?